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i953 o. v. DUTRO ET AL PRINTING, PUNCHING, AND CUTTING MACHINE l9 Sheets-Sheet 18 Filed Aug. 22, 1950 INVENTORS I 09W!!! 14.00790 1 71! 1400790 JANE! F ISM/V5771 Filed Aug. 22, 1950 0. V. DUTRO ET AL PRINTING, PUNCHING, AND CUTTING MACHINE 19 Sheets-Sheet l9 JNVENTORS Q div/ALE 1 04 790 Q JANE? A NAME??? Q q Patented Oct. 13, 1953 PRINTING, PUNCHING, AND CUTTING MACHINE Orville V. Dutro and Lyle V. Dutro, La Canada,

and James F. Nameth, Los Angeles, Calif., assignors to The McBee Company, Athens, Ohio,

a corporation Application August 22, 1950, Serial No. 180,832

12 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a press for producing marginally perforated record cards and the like. More particularly it relates to a press adapted to receive a continuous, printed web having record cards such as the well-known Keysort cards imprinted thereon; toprint each card with a serial number; to punch each card to provide sequential marginal perforations within a card: to notch each card to code it with the same serial number as is printed thereon, and to shear and trim the web to produce individual cards.

In record and statistical cards such as the wellknown Keysort cards, each card is provided with perforations along one or more of its edges. These perforations are divided into fields corresponding to units, tens, hundreds, etc., and they may be arranged in a single row or in double rows. By appropriately notching and/or slotting the perforations the cards are coded and may thereafter be classified and sorted on accounting machines in accordance with the information coded therein by the notching and slotting.

It is advantageous in many instances to provide a batch or lot of cards, each of which has imprinted thereon a serial number and is also notched or slotted to correspond to the printed number. Thus, in filling an order for, say 50,000 cards, it may be desirable to number these cards serially from to 49,999 and to acomplish this numbering by both printing and notching.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a machine which is adapted to receive a continuous printed web having cards imprinted thereon, to number each card serially by printing means, to punch marginal perforations in each card, to notch or slot each card, to code its serial number and to shear and trim the web to produce individual cards.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a machine including a printing station having a first rotary printing means and a second rotary printing means arranged to successively print on a moving web, a punching station having punching means for punching through the web, a rotary operating means adapted to receive the web from the punching station and perform an operation on the web while the web is moving, means for continuously feeding the web through the printing station to and through the punching station in an intermittent advancing manner and then continuously through said rotary operating means, and means for inactivating the first rotary printing means and then after a predetermined lapse of time inactivating the second rotary printing means, and then after a further predetermined lapse of time inactivating the punching means,

These and other objects of the invention will be apparent from the ensuing description and the appended claims.

One form which the invention may assume is exemplified in the following description and illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a view of the machine in its entirety, being a longitudinal section taken along the center line of the machine.

Figures 2A, 2B and 2C are fragmentary diagrammatic views of the web as it proceeds through the machine, illustrating the various operations performed on the web by the machine.

Figure 3 is a section taken along the line 3-3 of Figure 1, being a transverse section through the machine showing the printing numbering assembly. and also the kickout or time delay mechanism in end'elevation.

Figure 4 is a section taken along the line 4-4 of Figure 3 showing certain details of the numbering assembly for printing serial numbers on the cards, and also showing certain details of the kickout or time delay mechanism which is employed to terminate operation of the numbering assembly and of the notching assembly in properly timed relationship.

Figures 5 and 6 are detailed views of the kickout mechanism as they appear in Figure 4, but in different operative positions.

Figures '7 and 8 are sections taken along the line and 8-8, respectively, of Figure 4 showing certain details of the kickout mechanism.

Figure 9 is a section taken along the line 9-9 of Figure 3 showing the accentric mounting of one of the numbering shafts which form part of the numbering assembly.

Figure 10 is an exploded perspective view of the cam assembly for operating the kickout mechanism.

Figure 11 is a 'view in elevation as seen from the left-hand side (as viewed in Figure 3) or the works side of the machine, showing certain operating elements of the kickout mechanism.

Figure 12 is a section taken along the line l2-I2 of Figure 3 through the cam follower shaft of the kickout mechanism.

Figure 13 is a transverse section taken along the line l3l3 of Figure 1, showing the notching assembly in end elevation.

Figure 14 is a partial view, on a larger scale, of the shuttle device employed to maintain the web stationary at the piercing and notching sta tions while perforations and notches are being punched in the web.

Figure 15 is a section taken along the line I5l5 of Figure 14.

Figure 16 is a view of the shuttle chain drive 

